Well a great black river a man had found
  So he put all his money in a hole in the ground
  And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down down
  Man now I live on the streets of Houston town
    Packed up my wife and kids when winter came along
  And we headed down south with just spit and a song
  But they said "Sorry son it's gone gone gone"
    Well there's men hunkered down by the railroad tracks
  The Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair back
  Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty moonlight
  And I don't know where I'm gonna sleep tonight
    Parked in the lumberyard freezin' our asses off
  My kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough
  Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife
  Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle of the night
  Says "Move along man move along"
    Well big limousine long shiny and black
  You don't look ahead you don't look back
  How many times can you get up after you've been hit?
  Well I swear if I could spare the spit
  I'd lay one on your shiny chrome
  And send you on your way back home
  So if you're gonna leave your town where the north wind blow
  To go on down where that sweet soda river flow
  Well you better think twice on it Jack
  You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead off the rack
  You ain't gonna find nothin' down here friend
  Except seeds blowin' up the highway in the south wind
  Movin' on movin' on it's gone gone it's all gone